Art & Inspiration Are there people who just aren't nickname people?

Good thread, Curious George.
People stick different names on me depending on the crowd. In high school when the movie "An Officer And A Gentleman" came out, people quickly slurred my last name 'Mayes' in Richard Gere's character 'Mayonnaise'...it didn't help that I love it on burgers either. In the Navy I was 'Jackhammer' because of a comment I made while watching a porno in the hangar. At the sheriff's dept I got stuck with 'Crazy'. And at my last job I got stuck with 'Weeds' (cuz just when you thought I was gone I'd pop up).
Some people on here call me 'Fish' or 'Tanker', but my forum moniker is actually what my fiance' calls my car, the FishTank. When I get around to actually becoming an alliance member, I wanted my car's nickname to be on the firewall plate, not my own.

 

Real cool old dude at my work gave me mine on my first day.
Potter
After Harry Potter,cos I used to wear roundish glasses(Blame my mum).

Real proud of it,dunno why.Maybe cos someone liked me enough to give it to me

 

Del, it looks like people who use their real names on internet forums are the rebels these days if that is what you are talking abut.

Ed Roth always used to bug stripers and airbrushers that they should have a nickname. He was quoted in Airbrush Action Magazine as saying, "If you don't have a nickname, you'll just be some Tom Davison". I thought that was pretty cool.

He told Craig Fraser that he needs a nickname to help him stand out from the masses of other painters and Craig told him he stands out because he doesn't have a nickname.

 

I've never had a nickname but I love handing them out.
Here's a few that stuck over the years:

Bob Bitch'n - high school jock with perpetually new sneakers
Radar - friend that no longer has driver's license
Pooty - fartin' 300lb, 6' 5" Samoan with a sense of humor
Stinky Jim - no explanation needed
Magilla - knuckle dragging biker employee
Nick Danger - accident prone buddy Nick
Turtle - friend that has a chest that looks like a turtle's back
Peaches - Mexican employee named Preselliano
Turbo - slow speaking punch drunk boxer friend
Borneo - prehistoric looking furry friend Bob
Donde' - (Spanish for where) this guy is always lost
Hurricane - my grandaughter named Halia
Lolo Wahaine - (Hawaiian for crazy woman) my sweetheart of 35 years

 

Man, I must have known the craziest group of people over the years. These are all different friends I've had/have. These are all people whose nicknames stuck and went by these nicknames.

Donut - Parents owned a donut shop
Chubs - Was chubby as a kid
Fat Daddy - Big guy (cousin of Biscuit)
Biscuit - Shortened from Biscuit Lips cuz he had big lips
Squirrely - Last name was Shirley
Shorty - Nicknamed after his granddad
Peanut - Another short guy
Dancing Bear - Looked like it
Stick - Tall and skinny
Scotty Pee Wee the Motorcycle Daredevil - That one never quit stuck, but it was funny.
Chili - Known 2 guys named this.
T-Bone - First name was Terry.
Meatball - When he was a kid he had white hair and was called Snowball. Later on, he got fat and his nickname changed.
Red - Redheaded.
Homasta - Cuz he wasn't.
Hufdaddy - Modified last name.
A-train - Long story...
Murf - Shortened from Smurf.
Oney - A previous boss's nickname taken from the Johnny Cash song.
J-rod - A take on the first name.

At least 3 dudes with Big in front of their name.
At least 2 dudes with Little in front of their name.

There's more but I can't remember them all off the top of my head. Funny thing is, I'm still close friends with a large portion of them. I never got a nickname that stuck. Everybody just calls me by my last name. Go figure.

 

i have been called alot of things over the years usually involving fat but the ones that stick the most are

Big Jacob or Big Mclargehuge

 

my name is Joe Smith. no joke. that being said, i don't have a nickname.

 

I have a friend who was given the name "Porkchop"... He had just moved down here from St. Louis, and he was staying with an old friend and his 2 roomates, on his first night down, they all went out to a bar... One of the roomates brought the waitress home and when they woke up the next morning, the waitress was gone and had stolen all the meat out of the freezer! When the discovery was made, the whole house was in an uproar and "Eric" had to see the evidence himself, and opened up the freezer and said "She even took the Pork Chops!"

From that moment on, Eric was Porkchop.

I have a few, mostly non-interesting stories that go with them, B.G.S.G. (Big German stud guy, involving topless Germans tourists in Cancun), Kreemydrawz (Video game high score name, turned into an AOL ID), Weasel (given to me by a biker named "Zeebo"), Big Mike (because I'm bigger than the other Mike in the Poor Boys)... and of course "Donkey" in grade school, unfortunately, it was not given to me in a locker room, my last name is Domke.

 

I've never in my whole 61 years had a nickname.... I feel so deprived.... everyone had a nickname except me.... thanks for nothing bringing up this thread..... I think I'll go and have a fit of depression now....

 

JMO-Nicknames are all well and good, as long as they don't end up defining the person behind them.
Case in point: I spent a good part of 1969/70 slogging through the rice paddies and cutting through the jungle of RVN with about 20 or so other guys, many of which I became as close to as one human can to another. Except for officers, just about everybody had a nickname and were refered to by that name, almost exclusively. As a result, I can now only remember the actual, given name of just a few.
Fast foward about 36 yrs. : The traveling Wall comes to town, and I go to see it. As I arrive, it dawns on me (duh) just what the hell names am I gonna look for anyway? They don't list names on the Wall as: "thumper George" or "doc White" or "leech" or "surfer." A real regret for me.

 

Hello, Joe Smith, I'm Jim Smith. I feel your pain.

 

I knew a Biker a few years back with the last name Cunningham. His name got changed from Cunningham to Sly Bacon.

 

Since I joined the HAMB I know most of you guys by your HAMB names,and only know maybe a small number by their real names,lol....I get calls from some of you guys and have know idea who i'm talking to! HA HA HA!!!

 

For most of my life my first name has been enough to either confuse or ward off nicknames. "Coye" pronounced Coy or Koi. By the time most people get the pronunciation right, I'm too tired to give any of my nicknames. That being said, I've had "Little Ronnie" or " Little Rono" after my Dad "Ronald" given to me by his friends, Knuckles, Red Tom, and Saint Jude. Back then I of course paid respect to their age so they were Mr. Knuckles, Mr. Red Tom and Mr. Saint Jude.
I've picked a couple more along the way

Moamar "Coye"Dafi - From my buddy Richard Brown - aka Yassir Richard Fat, aka Chi-Chi

"Deuce", from being in the 82D Airborne,

"Big Sarge", because of my rank

and last and my all time favorite "Uncle Koi Fish" from my neice Marley Sage. She got me a t-shirt with a Koi on it for Christmas.

I don't introduce myself by any nickname, they just happen. Some call me by this one and others by that one and I let them do it but I will always be known as "Coye" first.

 

ok i'll type here as soon as i stop laughing long enough, I ended up getting named burger, I used to always be getting the burgers for everyone at work,and got accused of eating some of them. it stuck.

 

nicknames have always facinated me also. the wife doesnt understant it.
everybody at the coal mine and ship yard had them.

forked toung freddy--boss that would tell ya what you wanted to hear.
un-slacker------------- looked busy when the boss was looking
spunk----------?
BDJ-- ----------BIG DUMB JAKE
raidar------------he looked like raidar
gobel snout------------?
hillbilly- --------need i say anything
hobo master-----------?
tuffy------- thought he could kick ass
poddray- --------went to church everyday
blue bill- -------looked like bluebird the pirate
snozz-- ----had a realy big nose
thumbs-- ---- dont ask
leg-n-bass---- last name is armntrout
fluffy- ----------dont ask
shit nat -------and hes proud of it
buckey-- ------- big buck teeth
the bro--------- tuff little biker thats stand 5'6"
chim chim---------bosses little monkey
gravy---- dont ask him about the stipper


thanks gravy

 

a good friend of mine's name is john smith , he tells me making motel reservations are sometimes very interesting!

 

got my nickname when i was born,stuck ever since. Fuzzy. use to hate it but now thats all i go by.have a friend that buys alot of stuff off ebay so we usually call him paypal or paypal pat, have a pale friend that we call chalkass, theres poopypants lance....you can guess why on that one,theres derf, his name spelled backwards, same as another friend evets. cousins name is toughy, got mad when he lost a basketball game, stomped around all mad and looked tough.

 

A buddy of mine has a last name thats kinda hard to pronounce. When he goes to a restuarant and has to wait for a table, or something similar, he always tells them his last name is Ford.

 

Man I know all kinds of people with nicknames. I work at a place that makes asphalt plants and we have many nicknames floating around.

I use to be kinda chubby when I was young, My name is Patrick, so everyone called me
"fat pat". Some people still call me that even though Im not chubby anymore. I have another one at work. My last name is "Johnson" so everyone calls me "Big Johnson"

Bouncer.....This was given to my dad years ago and he has been called that for as long as I can remember. I have got different stories as of why. Some people tell me that it was because he didnt take any shit when he was younger and it reminded them of a bouncer at a bar. Others tell me that he use to be wirey and couldnt set still and was bouncing around everywhere all the time.

Hippie...Long haired grumpy old man
Corndog....Apparently he likes corndogs
Moondog.....Worked 3rd shift for years and the name stuck
Suitcase.....??? havent figured it out
Baby J......He is the youngest kid and his name is Justin
Baby Dumplin....He is the bosses pet, short fat guy that is softer than any woman you ever met
John boy......Names John, dont know where the "boy" came from
John John.....John boys son
Moosie......???? John boys other son
Lightning......The slowest worker you have ever seen
Porky......Short fat guy
2 gun.....I gave him this name because he was trying to tell me that they are a such thing as 2 gun welders
June bug......guy has been into VW bugs for years
Wan.....chinese guy
Nigger Bill......Guy hates black people so everyone added nigger in front of his name.
Nubb......Lost his arm in a car wreck years ago
Goober.....Guy is a real goober if ya know what I mean
Snoop.......?????
Caveman.....Looks like a caveman

There is alot more I just cant think of them right now but you get the picture. You would just have to know some of these guys.

 

If I have trouble picking a knickname for some cat,which is very seldom,I just deem them as Num-Nuts or Re-Tard >>>>.

 

When I was a skinny little kid growin' up in South Philly, in an Italian/Irish neighborhood, there were at least 5 "Joey's" on our block. For some reason I was just Joey, but there was Baby Joey (the short fat kid that ALWAYS had something to eat in his hand), Joey Junior, Little Joey (well deserved, cause this kid made ME look fat, and there was the tallest one of us, JoJo (Which is what all my gear-head buddies from the old neighborhood call me today)

 

I get everything that rymes with kail like dale for one, and snail (got that one because my first day i had to install a power window kit in a 54 chevy and make glass templates for the chop, and i didn't know where anything was and had never done power windows so one guy said if you take any longer we will have to call you snail.

also Mic because im irish and look it, then McMidget, we were talking about getting a midget as a shop boy and some how mic-midget came up even though im not the shortest guy at the shop...

we have:
Big Dude
Barstow
Joe Dirt aka Dirt aka Go Joe
Senior

Then friends
pork chop
squirlle
chiwawa
hoops
dre

 

I know that well, I bet you can guess why Im called Doc!
I knew so many people only by knick name, I was even seeing a chick called 'Gov's' short for Govenor and never knew her real name!

Some I remember,

Head job, Work it out!
Suitcase, Could fill one with what he ate, skinny guy too!
Sparrow, Looked like one
Flog, Because he was a flog (Idiot)
Jack, 'Jack' is Army slang for only looking after yourself
Boots, He was a brown nose and so far up the boss's arse its all you could see.
The floating head He would just appear looking around doors
The factor You always had to factor his stupidity in all plans
Pisscock Ummm............
Mongo Big guy
Two dogs Took home the worst two one night
Little Bitch Watch 'Basketball'
Sledge hammer His tool of choice

There were dozens more, I just cant think of them right now. RK its funny that the closest people you ever know were only known by a nickname. I still keep in contact with the guys I served with, we get together to drink for lost mates on ANZAC day.

Doc.

 

my nickname has been scooter since i was about a week old, dads nickname has been moose since he was about 16, moms nickname was pee-wee oh an who ca forgot nicknamed my sister COSMO cause sh was always in the cozmos. to say the least this family had a habit of nickanmes

other friends nickanmes include

mopasta : mopar guy take off of 1st name
chubby digits, mcgriddles: a big guy we know
teeej
cragar, take off of his 1st name
zach-a-d*ldo, take off of his last name
fish
fireman, lit his arm and foot on fire that was comedy
mama, friends wife long story
homer, my nephew
turd burglar, .......
laney
bendova, take off of his last name
frankie hagar, guy looks just like sammy hagar
the pink lady, color of car he runs
the lime lady, friend of mine whos stock car is sublime green
the muffler man,
virge, R.I.P virgil sellers
shirley mul-d, girl at the race track who used to race , always said she wanted to be like shirley muldowney so we made up a nick name for her one day in tech, shirley mul-d!
portmaster,
tango,
4-speed,
and the best one of all , dooder-eater now thats a long story

 

due to a Kustom 52 ford I bought that had a 63 rambeler front end hammer welded to it. I got the licenses plates that read UG LEY. The car is gone to someone with no sence of humour they put a stock front end back on. But I still use the plate on all my old cars and am known as Ugley to alot of the car guys now. I kinda like it it gets this story told at least once a day when driving even funnier when the wife takes the car.

 

My mother used to call me " You Little Sh*t " a lot, and a funny thing, every time she called me that name I would see stars and get a real bad headache.

 

how bout "coco the monkey"???

 

These are hilarious! Yeah, I've been called "Swede". I certainly look the part ( blonde, 6', 300lbs., strikingly handsome ), but nothing's ever stuck. I'm not sure about "T-Bone" or "Co-Co the monkey". I'm a journeyman Steamfitter and in the trades you have all kinds of knuckleheads with big mouths and smaller heads. The closest I've been refered to as a primate was when our whole crew was called "Shaved Apes" on one of our jobsites. I thought it was so funny I used as my business name, "Swanson Artworks and Shaved Ape Studios".

I want to thank Doc Watson, Rootie Katzoootie, and anyone else who served or is serving our country. I have two brothers over in Iraq right now. One is a medic and the other a pilot.

Thanks for everyones response, I'm laughing My ass off reading these!
Still just Del

 

we had a guy at work just left ,called him squirrel after rocky the squirrel, after he left i found a chinese cresent wrench with squirrel company stamped on it,what are the odds? it's hanging up in my tool cabinet now. everyone where i work are "rats" everyone has a rat name. except for squirrel,as i mentioned, but still a rodent.